Word: osborne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered so far in th four classes. In the Ladies Singles are Betty Howe, Hasel Crockett, Betty Lincoln, Louise Maguire, and Henrietta Young. F. H. Edwards and W. White are in the Narrow Compromise race; Polly Mitchell in the Broad Comp; and H. Armitage, H. Hubbard, and J. Osborn are entered in the Wherry Race. Each race will have to have at least four or five entrants to make it worth running...
...American Museum of Natural History has long wanted a planetarium to show visitors how the planets revolve about the Sun, how the Sun moves among the other stars. The problem of getting money for the planetarium stumped Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn while he was president of the museum. By last week his successor Frederick Trubee Davison, son and brother of bankers, had invented an ingenious means: a quasi-public corporation called the Planetarium Authority, similar to the popular and profitable Port of New York Authority which builds toll tunnels, toll bridges and other self-liquidating port improvements. Such Authorities...
Editor Van Coevering does not overburden his magazine with preaching. Most of it is filled with conversational stories about Michigan fields & streams, articles on sports and Nature-lore. Michigan's foremost Nature-lover and onetime Governor, Chase Salmon Osborn, contributes a lyrical paean to Spring. First issue of 40,000 sold out 95%, even in hard-pressed Detroit...
Most marvelous results of the ten years digging were dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria, and rats which lived with dinosaurs. In 1900 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist, predicted the finding of great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test...
...raise money for the digging Dr. Andrews and Dr. Osborn at a breakfast in Manhattan decided to excite the public by selling a dinosaur egg to the highest bidder. Offers came from all parts of the world, including Australia and New Zealand. The Illustrated London News bid, as did the National Geographic Society. The late Colonel Austin Colgate bought the egg for $5,000. Colgate University now has it. Dr. Andrews followed up the publicity, in four months raised $286,000 for his field work...